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At the time, rebel-held areas in Homs were under siege by the government, and residents were struggling to access food and medicine.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Before long, Anthropic’s growth rate surged past OpenAI’s, as did its valuation—and OpenAI found itself waging two separate battles as its lead in the AI race came under siege.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

That landmark picture features McElwee, then in his mid-30s, as he tries to chronicle the exploits of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid siege to the South during the Civil War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Many fear the merger will result in massive job cuts in an industry that has been under siege from consolidations and layoffs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

They laid siege to the tomb all night, but the following morning, both force fields remained intact.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Similar sieges unfolded across Syria—in Duma, Zabadani, and beyond.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

We stretch beyond the cathedral and onto Pamplona’s city walls, where the stone holds centuries of sieges, prayers, and heartbreak.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023

Turk said Israel's "imposition of sieges that endanger the lives of civilians by depriving them of goods essential for their survival is prohibited under international humanitarian law".

From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023

The beat knights had gone to perfection, leaving the wont to hold their sieges.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

And at a subsequent screening he met several audience members who said they were from Mariupol and that their relatives were escaping the sieged city at the same time he was.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

On February 28, 1993, law enforcement sieged Mount Carmel Center ranch, the compound that belonged to Koresh and his religious cult.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023

“There is quite a lot of people still remaining in the absolutely sieged city of Mariupol in some inhumane conditions,” he said during a video briefing.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022

Over these past weekends, many of my friends have attended medical first aid courses, survival courses on how to survive in an occupied or sieged city.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2022

The city's sieged, and thou thus chain'd In airy fetters of a lady's love!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley

It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

"But there is time ahead of us," said everybody at Breslau; "Glogau will take some sieging!"

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

He knew that before him lay the culminating battle of his long and ardent sieging of Fortune's stronghold.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

But Clive's keen eyes discerned stuff for better things than the sieging of Indian forts in the young volunteer.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy

Italy, all but some sieging of strong-places, may be considered as lost for the present.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle